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- Use an Excel spreadsheet to prototype your reports
- Prototyping is a tried and true method for capturing the design details of user interface design. Less-experienced developers sometimes overlook the output requirements of a system when designing it. Report prototyping often reveals holes in the design for input functions and data processing functions. Joe Goss has discovered a very...
- Tags: Excel Spreadsheet, Data-processing, Joe Goss, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Download resources 2008-06-19
- Mining project requirements -- techniques to use before and after an interview
- Conducting a good interview to gather project requirements can be a daunting task -- particularly if you are interviewing a stakeholder who holds a high position in the organization, or has a reputation for making people uncomfortable. Good preparation and good follow-up are critical factors in a successful interview. ...
- Tags: Technique, Interview, Joe Goss, Productivity
- Download resources 2008-03-20
- Develop a Web site accessible by visually impaired users and comply with the law
- Poorly designed Web pages create a significant challenge to someone who cannot see your Web pages. However, it is easy to make good decisions about page design -- once you understand the Section 508 standards and have some tools in your back pocket. By using the tools outlined, you broaden...
- Tags: Web, Web Site, Web Page, Joe Goss, Channel Management, Web Site Development, Productivity, Marketing, Internet
- Download resources 2008-02-21
- Create and sustain a customer focus within projects
- Whether the clients you serve are inside or outside your organization, creating and sustaining customer focus is crucial to your success as an IT department. As a project manager or business analyst, you have a unique opportunity to understand your customer needs, and you can lead your IT department in...
- Tags: Information Technology, Department, Joe Goss, Strategy, Leadership, Management
- Download resources 2008-01-10
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- News to know: Layoffs at AT&T, Adobe, Real; AMD warns; $99 iPhone
- Larry Dignan: AT&T cuts 12,000 jobs, will cut capital spending Jason D. O'Grady: Adobe lays off 600; skips Macworld Expo Sam Diaz: Next up for layoffs: Real Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD warns of 25% drop in Q4 sales Larry Dignan: AMD:...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Layoff, Larry Dignan, AT&T Corp., Health Care, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped
- Last week at this time I was throwing my neck out there forecasting some of CRM's moves in 2009 - and no one chopped it off, thank goodness. So, now, in the same spirit, I'm going to do part 2 of three and stick my hands out to be slapped...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Market player machinations may warp, but not 'kill', SOA
- Dave Linthicum recently offered a somewhat dour assessment of the SOA market, determining that there at least five things killing SOA as we know it these days: Venture capitalists by micromanaging SOA vendors; Sarbanes-Oxley by scaring away SOA vendors; Big consulting firms (by mismanaging SOA...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- News to know: Adobe; Windows 7; Sun; SOA; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: A plea to the Windows team: Don't make Windows 7 too Mac-like Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case study Michael...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Antivirus, Sun Microsystems Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Home Entertainment, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Linux, Web Services, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Creative Commons needs help with "non-commercial use"
- One of the things you learn pretty quickly in the open source community is that "non-commercial use" is not a well-defined term. This is why the Open Source Definition doesn't allow for clauses to restrict commercial use. The same can't be said for Creative Commons, and they're looking for some...
- Tags: Creative Commons, Marketing Research, Open Source, Marketing, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Mashups: No SOA required, but keep IT in the loop
- When it comes to mashups, just do it. by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Mashup, Collaboration, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Despite what blogs (and Apple) say, Macs will eventually have malware
- People seemed to get into a tizzy about Apple posting an announcement recommending Anti-Virus software for Macs. Even though it was retracted, I do think that Apple priming Mac users for the eventuality of widespread malware is a good idea. People who believe that the fundamental design of...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antivirus, Blog, Malware, Apple Inc., Malware Writer, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Big Three Automakers get Wall Street Fever: give us more money
- Big Three Automakers get Wall Street Fever: give us more moneyThe corporate jet market is going to be saturatedEveryone's selling the company jet. Who's going to buy all of them?I wish I was in the market for a Gulfstream... :(I'm very leery of bailing them out.Just two weeks ago...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Benefits, automobile company, U.S. Congress, car, Ford Motor Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- News to know: Apple and anti-virus; Vista SP2; Kumo; Palm; Linux
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Christopher Dawson: Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)? Ryan Naraine: Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus Breaking...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Nokia Corp., Antivirus, Service Pack 2, Palm Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Security, Viruses And Worms, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Telltale signs of SOA governance deficit
- Are there any "telltale signs" that an organization is missing the governance boat when it comes to efforts to effectively deploy SOA methodologies? Todd Biske, enterprise architect extraordinaire and author of the recently published work on SOA Governance, observes that many organizations may have conflicting priorities that emerge when it...
- Tags: SOA, SOA Governance, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- SOA eased the way for recent shotgun financial mergers
- These are times that try banks' souls. Over the past few months, some financial services companies have been vaporized, and others have been absorbed or merged to save their skins. It's possible that SOA efforts that have been underway at these organizations in recent years may have...
- Tags: Bank, Merger, Financial, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Would you lie to get your project funded?
- 83% of cost/benefit analysis supporting IT proposals is a fiction I was reviewing an academic manuscript, Managing the Realization of Business Benefits from IT Investments (published in (MIS Quarterly Executive, March 2007) by Professors Joe Peppard, John Ward and Elizabeth Daniel, when a footnote really caught my...
- Tags: Information Technology, Benefit, Strategy, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Apple forced to drop deceptive television ad in UK
- Apple forced to drop deceptive television ad in UKGood.Some corporations need a thorough cleaning to get rid of nonsense such as this.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAI love that video... I wonder how fast the iPhone could be on Verizon? AT&T is known to all of us in the real world as the absolutely...
- Tags: advertisement, Apple Inc., deceptive television ad, television ad, TV
- Discussion threads 2008-11-26
- Talking with Likewise on GPLv3 and community management
- I've been watching Palamida's tracking of GPLv3 (and LGPLv3) adoption over the last year with interest. It looks like adoption is moving at a reasonable, if not super-speedy, pace. However, not everyone is moving from version 2 to version 3. One company, Likewise, actually decided to move backwards from GPLv3...
- Tags: Community, Likewise Software, GPLv3, Q, Open, Fall Edition, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- News to know: Macs on sale, YouTube goes wide, Twitter, Cisco
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: A rare occurrence: Macs on sale Jason D. O'Grady: Apple retail stores to match prices Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple prepares for Black Friday blow-out! ...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, YouTube Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Cisco Systems Inc., Twitter, Telemarketing, AJAX, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Digital Media, Marketing, Marketing Research, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Harvard Business Review warns against 'sloppy thinking': does this apply to SOA?
- Is SOA just the latest bandwagon nobody wants to miss -- or something deeper? by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, Harvard Business Review, John Evdemon, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
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